Alstom’s offshore wind vice-president, Frédéric Hendrick, tells Recharge that the French government will publish the full terms of the offshore tender early this month, and has scheduled a consultation meeting with the consortium on 12 July.

Alstom and EDF-EN plan to bid for all five projects in the tender, he says. In January, the two companies agreed to bid jointly for the round, along with developers Nass&Wind,